“Our Fault” is the final book in the Culpable trilogy, a forbidden romance between step-siblings. Since their breakup, Nick and Noah have mostly been apart this last year, but fate brings them back together as their best friends, Jenna and Lion, are getting married.
Book Review: Your Fault (Culpable #2) by Mercedes Ron
“Your Fault” is the sequel to the Culpable series. Tension rises as circumstances keep Nick and Noah apart: Noah moves to her university campus while Nick handles his father’s law firm. Meanwhile, their parents and the people around them exert themselves to keep the step-siblings turned lovers apart.
Book Review: My Fault (Culpable #1) by Mercedes Ron
“My Fault” is the first book in a forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance trilogy. The story follows Nick and Noah, they are step-siblings who can’t stand each other; however, we quickly learn that they are more alike than they’d like to admit… and the irresistible attraction between the two is undeniable.
Book Review: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
“Slaughterhouse-Five” is an anti-war novel about the often overlooked tragedy that was the Bombing of Dresden in WWII. In this fictionalized account, Vonnegut transforms his experience by creating the sensitive character of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son drafted into the war and then abducted by friendly aliens when he becomes ‘unstuck in time.’
Book Review: Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
“Fledgling” follows a genetically modified, seemingly young-looking, vampire who’s lost her memory. She’s tasked with saving herself and the ones she loves from those who caused her harm and murdered her family.
Books That Made Me Want to Keep Writing (Top 10 Books of 2024)
Every year, my criteria for my favourite books of the year changes. In 2024, after coming out of a long writing drought, I’ve realized that the books that left a long-lasting impression on me were the ones that made say, “Wow! I want to write like that!” or “Wow! I want to live that way!”
Book Review: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” begins with a young nameless couple. The story truly starts when the girl disappears and the boy, now a middle-aged man, decides to unravel the mystery of the walled city she once spoke of.
What is Autofiction? (5 Autofiction Novels To Read)
In the last few years, but especially in the last two decades, autofiction has garnered much attention and criticism. Some people absolutely love the style and others completely loathe it.
Love it or hate it, it’s a practice many authors engage in when they first begin to write, and return to, once they master their writing.
Book Review: Rouge by Mona Awad
“Rouge” follows the unraveling of our main character, Mirabelle. After her mother’s passing, Belle stays in California, cleaning up her mother’s apartment. From there, she’s recruited to Rouge, a Spa that promises her that she can be her Most Magnificent Self, the very same Maison de Méduse that her mother attended before she went the Way of the Roses.
Book Review: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
“Eileen” is a mystery-thriller crime book following our main character’s disappearance during the week leading up to Christmas.
Book Review: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
“Red, White & Royal Blue” follows the fake friendship between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the U.S. President’s son, and Prince Henry of England, who happen to be nemeses. A confrontational picture of the two at a wedding makes the tabloid, resulting in Alex and Henry having to reclaim their disastrous narrative by becoming diplomatic friends to save Alex’s mother’s electoral campaign… but they accidentally become lovers instead.
Book Review: Through My Window (Hidalgos #1) by Ariana Godoy
“Through My Window” follows good girl Raquel Álvarez’s crush on her mysterious bad boy neighbour Ares Hildago. This is a steamy, proximity romance about first love and heartbreak.